Egypt

Medicine Authority: Antibiotics won 11.6% of the total sales of the 2024 drug market

Dr. Ali Al -Ghamrawi, Chairman of the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Authority, participated in the third medical conference for the optimal use of antibiotics and anti -Adawi, in the presence of Dr. Mohamed Awad Taj Al -Din, Advisor to the President of the Republic for Health and Faithful, d. Ahmed Al -Sobky, Chairman of the Public Authority for Health Care, General Supervisor of Comprehensive Health Insurance Projects and a decent life at the Ministry of Health and Population, d. Hisham State, Chairman of the Unified Purchase, Supply, Medical Supply and Medical Technology Department, Dr. Ahmed Taha, Chairman of the General Authority for Accreditation and Health Supervision, d. Naama Abed, representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt. The bacteria.

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and as he emphasized that & nbsp; the Egyptian pharmaceutical market is one of the largest regional markets, with a financial value of 309 billion pounds, and includes more than 12 thousand drug preparations with total sales of up to 3.5 billion packages, and form Antibiotics 887 preparations with a total sales of 407 million packages, which represents approximately 11.6% of the total sales of the drug market in the year 2024, this includes unwanted use, which reached 55% of the total sales of antibiotics according to the latest statistics. The Egyptian medicine to ensure the rational use of these products; Where the authority follows up the consumption of antibiotics; The Egyptian Medicine Authority joined the surveillance program and monitoring the consumption of antibiotics of the World Health Organization, and the authority closely follows consumption rates at the national level, and raises data to the global platform according to the specific daily dose system, as it provides the opportunity to compare consumption rates in the Arab Republic of Egypt with consumer rates in different countries of the world. & nbsp; He pointed out that the total consumption of antimicrobials in Egypt for the year & quot; 2023 & nbsp; Depending on the classification of & quot; & nbsp; & nbsp; Access reached 59%, for the group 39.4 watch and 1.2% for the group Reserve, and that work is underway to achieve rational use and decisions based on these data such as issuing a decision & quot; organizing and following up the disbursement of antibiotics & quot; The regulatory regulation of antibiotics from the antibiotics group & quot; reservate & quot; & nbsp; as a primary step, a control of supervision and measuring the extent of adherence to the pharmaceutical institutions to the application; Inspection campaigns were made during the period from July 2024 to February 2025 for 507 institutions, who are the highest consuming of these preparations, and this resulted in monitoring violations of 42 institutions where the supply was stopped according to the organizational guide. The injection is about 38.4% by the end of March 2025, as sales reached 138 thousand packages compared to sales at the beginning of the application of the decision in August 2024, when sales at the time reached 224 thousand packages, in parallel with the completion of the work in the next stage on the issuance of the WATCH group in order to reduce the unsafe use of antibiotics and unify policies and procedures to use them according to the standard standards in a way that reflects positively On the Egyptian patient. ” It comes in the forefront in the oral form by more than 95.33%, followed by preparations intended for injection by 4.66%, in addition to the division according to the level of health care & quot; public hospitals and pharmacies & quot;, and the classification of consumption in hospitals to a public and private sector, and it should be noted that the size of the institutional market & quot; public sector & quot; & nbsp; for antagonists represents the 18.7% compared to 81.3% for the local market & quot; private sector & quot;. ” Training for veterinarians on calculating the rates of antagonists in the veterinary sector, participating in developing a national strategy to combat antimicrobial resistance, as well as joining the global network of organizational agencies to combat antimicrobial resistance, participating in the national strategic framework for one health in Egypt, and contributing to the modernization of the draft national plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. & nbsp;

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With regard to awareness -raising efforts, Dr. Ali Al -Ghamrawi stressed that the Egyptian Medicine Authority pays special attention to launching campaigns and initiatives to make appropriate awareness of good use of antibiotics, including community awareness through the & quot; your Amanak & quot; & nbsp; which aims to visit deficiencies Culture, social clubs, as well as awareness provided to those who frequent the Egyptians Authority, as well as awareness of pharmacists working in the government sector through the pharmaceutical care initiative, that & nbsp; With the participation of representatives from the World Health Organization and a number of faculty members in the universities, the Triple ES initiative is the Experience Exchange Center.

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